M62 crash J27–J28 eastbound
Cleared Cleared at 18:50 on 8 Oct 2026, after 3 h 58 min.
Crash on the M62 eastbound at J27–J28 on Thursday 8 October 2026, from 14:52. Cleared at 18:50 after 3 h 58 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom and the motorway signs.
M62 eastbound · J27–J28
Collision
Thu 14:52–Thu 18:50 (cleared after 3 h 58 min) · delay ~50 min · queue 7.8 mi
TomTom ×10 · Motorway signs ×3
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Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~9 min
- TomTom: delay now ~17 min (was ~9)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
- TomTom: now says collision, “Stationary traffic, Accident”
- Motorway signs: “M62 J27-J28 COLLISION”
- TomTom: collision, “Stationary traffic, Accident”, delay ~31 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~5 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~32 min (was ~22)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- Motorway signs no longer show “M62 J27-J28 COLLISION”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~51 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~7 min
- Motorway signs no longer show “M62 J27-J28 COLLISION”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~15 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: delay now ~11 min (was ~5)
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- Motorway signs: “OBSTRUCTION ON SLIP ROAD”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~6 min
- TomTom: delay now ~5 min (was ~12)
- TomTom: delay now ~12 min (was ~5)
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “OBSTRUCTION ON SLIP ROAD”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
What the sources said
- Stationary traffic, Accident
- Slow traffic
- Stationary traffic
- Overhead signs read “M62 J27-J28 COLLISION” (2 signs; e.g. M62 eastbound at the Hartshead Moor services between J25 and J26). Marker placed near M62 J27–J28 using the signs there, so it is approximate.
- Overhead signs read “M62 J27-J28 COLLISION” (1 sign; e.g. M62 eastbound between J26 and J27). Marker placed near M62 J27–J28 using the signs there, so it is approximate.
- Queuing traffic
- Overhead signs read “OBSTRUCTION ON SLIP ROAD” (1 sign; furthest along: M62 westbound between J27 and J26).
Other recent incidents on the M62
- M62 closed J34–J35 eastbound
- M62 closed J32 eastbound
- M62 crash J25–J24 westbound
- M62 crash J25 eastbound
- M62 crash J29 eastbound
- M62 stopped traffic J25–J24
- M62 crash J23–J22 eastbound
- M62 crash J22–J23 eastbound
- M62 crash J30–J29 westbound
- M62 crash J26–J25 westbound
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